Philip L. Felgner, Ph.D.
Director of the UCI Vaccine Research and Development Center and the Protein Microarray Laboratory and Training Facility
Office Falling Leaves Foundation Medical Innovation Building, Room 2513
Phone: (949) 824-1407
Dr. Felgner is the Director of the recently established Center for Vaccine Research and Development (vaccine. uci.edu). Dr. Felgner has been focused on Department of Defense – funded research to develop a peptide-based vaccine for Q-fever caused by the obligate Rickettsia family bacteria Coxiella burnetti. He has trained 5 graduate students and 4 post-docs in the last 10 years. Sharon Jan who is TGE, is working on the C. burnetti project. As noted in the Background, Dr. Felgner has been working COVID-19, and submitted a P01 grant on vaccine development.
IFI Research Focus Area(s): Host Defense and Vaccine Development
vaccine development, COVID-19, Q-Fever